Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman holds a Distinguished Chair in Psychology at the University of California Davis and is the director of its Center for Public Policy Research. She is widely credited with starting the modern science-based study of children's eyewitness memory and child victims as witnesses in legal circumstances. Professor Goodman who is a prolific author with a wide range of research publications as well as numerous grants to her name, is also the recipient of a variety of international and national distinctions. She has offered advice on policy and research to many agencies and departments across the world. She also serves as a consulting for the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center. (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center), of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is also a Fellow of both the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association, (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for Children and Families Practice and Policy American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 57). Professor Goodman is part of Psychonomics Society, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children as a founding member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has served as the president of 3 divisions (Division Society for Policy and Child Development as well as Practice Division of the American Psychology Law Society as well as Division Developmental Psychology) and one Section (Child Maltreatment) of the American Psychological Association.